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DESCRIPTION:This fall teams of revolutionaries will be hitting campuses around the 
 country—challenging those who have been lied to about communism, those 
 who have been told that the horror of this capitalist-imperialist system is 
 "the best of all possible worlds."\n\nA centerpiece of these efforts to 
 bring revolution to the campuses will be a major speech by Raymond Lotta. 
 Lotta's speech will be substantive and potentially transformative for all 
 who hear it, and it must be made a VERY BIG DEAL. The buzz should spread 
 about a revolutionary who is serious about overturning the verdict on 
 communism and has the facts, the analysis, and the passionate commitment to 
 humanity's liberation to back it up. Those who are attracted to the idea of 
 communism but who've been told "it can never work" should know this is the 
 place to come and ask their toughest questions. Opposition from 
 reactionaries should be turned around and made part of the growing 
 controversy and sense that Lotta's speech must be heard and engaged. All 
 those who consider themselves progressive critics of the current order but 
 who use their "radical" or even "Marxist" credentials to rule real 
 revolution off the table should be compelled—by the overall atmosphere 
 and expectations created campus-wide—to bring their best arguments and 
 put them up against what Lotta will have to say.\n\nThe following is the 
 leaflet announcing Lotta's talk University of California, Berkeley.  Come 
 into Revoluion Books to pick up copies of this leaflet and spread the 
 word:\n\nEVERYTHING YOU’VE BEEN TOLD ABOUT COMMUNISM IS WRONG\nCapitalism 
 is a failure...Revolution is the solution\na talk by Raymond 
 Lotta\n\nThursday, October 8, 2009 \n4:00 pm - 6:30 pm\nLipman Room, 8th 
 floor of Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley \n\nYou need to hear Raymond 
 Lotta.\nBecause you’ve been lied to about communism.\n\nYou need to hear 
 Raymond Lotta.\nBecause society does not have to be this way. \n\nWe can 
 create a world in which there is no exploitation.  A world in which people 
 can live cooperatively and solve problems collectively. A world where 
 individuals can flourish. \n\nBut wait a minute…isn’t communism a 
 totalitarian nightmare? Don’t all the textbooks and experts and memoirs 
 agree? \n\nNo, you’ve been fed distortions about communism…\nBy the 
 same people who told you that the war in Iraq was about weapons of mass 
 destruction…\nAnd by liberal and even some progressive scholars who 
 don’t want to see the world turned upside down. \n\nThis is about the 
 nightmare and horror that is THIS system. \nThis is about the future of 
 humanity and the future of the planet. \n\nYou need to hear Raymond 
 Lotta\nBecause the new generation needs to learn about the actual and 
 emancipating history of socialism in the 20th century. \nAnd we need to go 
 further and do better in the next round of communist revolution. 
 \n\nRaymond Lotta is bringing revolution to Berkeley and other campuses 
 this Fall. \n\nIndicting this whole system of capitalism-imperialism as 
 utterly unreformable and unredeemable. Talking about the why the future of 
 communist revolution is both viable and desirable because of the leadership 
 and ongoing role of Bob Avakian. \n\nIf you yearn for a radically different 
 world and want to learn about why communism will be a far better 
 world…you need to hear Raymond Lotta\n\nIf you want to defend this system 
 and uphold the distortions about socialism, you should there be there 
 too…because Raymond Lotta is taking on all comers. 
 \n\n****************************\n\nIn October 2008, when the global 
 banking system was facing possible collapse, the Agence France-Presse went 
 to the German finance minister, a former U.S. Treasury official, and 
 Raymond Lotta for comment. Raymond Lotta is a Maoist political economist 
 and communist revolutionary. His book America in Decline was reviewed in 
 Foreign Affairs. He has given talks at UCLA, Harvard, Howard, as well as in 
 London and Mexico, about socialist revolution in the 20th century. An 
 activist-scholar, Raymond has been part of antiglobalization conferences 
 and protests in India, the Philippines, and Canada. \n 
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SUMMARY:EVERYTHING YOU'VE BEEN TOLD ABOUT COMMUNISM IS WRONG Capitalism is a failure... Revolutio
LOCATION:Lipman Room, 8th floor of Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley
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